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احياهُ

Root: حى

Form: 4

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احياهُIV , Verbal.Noun إِحْيَآءٌ, said of God, He made him alive, to live, or be a living being; quickened, endued with life, vivified, [revivified, revived, or resuscitated,] him. Hence, in the Kur [lxxv. last verse], أَلَيْسَ ذٰلِكَ بِقَادِرٍ أَنْ يُحْيِىَ المَوْتَى, i. e. Is not That Doer of these things [able to quicken the dead?].
2 See also 2, in two places.
3 He endued him with the intellectual faculty: as in the saying, in the Kur [vi. 122], أَوَمَنْ كَانَ مَيِّتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُ [And is he who was intellectually dead and whom we have endued with the intellectual faculty...?].
4 See also 3.
5 احيا الأَرْضَ He revived the earth, or land, by the rain, so as to produce in it plants, or herbage. And أُحْيِيَتِ الأَرْضُ The land was tilled, and made productive. And احيا المَوَاتِ He turned to use the unowned and unused and uncultivated land by walling it round or sowing it or building upon it and the like.
6 Also He found the land to be fruitful, or abundant in herbage, with fresh herbage.
7 احيا اللَّيْلَ He passed the night in religious service, worship, adoration, or devotion, abstaining from sleep: or [simply] he remained awake during the night. And احيا لَيْلَتَهُ He passed his night awake.

def.2 احيت النَّاقَةُ The she-camel had living offspring; her offspring seldom, or never, died.
2 احيا القَوْمُ The people, or company of men, had their cattle living: or had their cattle in good condition: or had rain, so that their beasts obtained herbage to such a degree that they became fat: or they became in a state of abundance of herbage, or plenty.


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